Too much of a good thing

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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Mae West

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Too much of a good thing

Author

Mae West

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

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Citation

West, Mae. Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It: The Autobiography of Mae West. Prentice Hall, 1959, ch. 21.

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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

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Too much of a good thing Excess

Author

Miguel de Cervantes

Source

Don Quixote

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Question

Language

Spanish

Time

1605 1600s 16th century

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Original Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha]. Madrid: Francisco de Robles, 1605.

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De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 102

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Too much of a good thing

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William Shakespeare

Source

Sonnet 102 Shakespeare's Sonnets

Medium

Sonnet Poem

Language

English

Time

1609 1600s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 102, I. 12.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 102.

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

George Bernard Shaw

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Vacation Time off Too much of a good thing

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Children's Happiness A Treatise on Parents and Children

Medium

Treatise

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "Children's Happiness." A Treatise on Parents and Children. Binker North, 1910.